Gerbrands 1 Side A

The cassette is a TDK D60. It is the first part of an interview with Adrianus Alexander Gerbrands (15-5-1917 - 6-11-1997) in Leiden on 7-11-1988. Adriaan Gerbrands was an anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. He was a curator at the Museum of Ethnology in Leiden. In 1956 he wrote his thesis on Kunst als cultuurelement in het bijzonder in Neger-Afrika, Den Haag, Excelsior. In 1960-1961 he did research among the Asmat and made the movie Matjemosh. He collected also art objects for the Museum in Leiden which led to the exhibition and later also the book Wow-Ipits, Eight Asmat wood carvers of New Guinea. He pioneered the approach of treating the art as being made by unique individuals with their own style. In 1966 he became professor of anthropology at the University of Leiden. In the seventies he made a number of documentaries on the Kilenge of New Britain. There are in the Museum of Ethnology six tapes with sound recordings which are filed under his name but they were made by Bert Voorhoeve who made the sound recordings for the Matjemosh documentary.
The tape is part of the audio collection of the foundation PACE Papua Cultural Inheritance. For more information or any messages or correspondence contact huublems81@gmail.com or srgales@ziggo.nl.

Side A is 31’47 and Side B is 31’47

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